Page 188 - The Transitional Form Dilemma

THE TRANSITIONAL-FORM DILEMMA

. . . the team classifies the new skull, like the other two, as Homo erectus. . . . In
fact, some features of the diminutive new skull also re-
semble H. habilis. . . . Indeed, says Rightmire, if the
researchers had found these bones first, they might
have called the fossils H. habilis. 184
In other words, according to Rightman,
the reason for this fossil being classified as
Homo erectus was the fact that other fossils
found in the same region were also classi-
fied as H. erectus. These statements all
make it clear that the fossils are de-

The imaginary evolution-

ary tree:
Every fossil discovered
merely further confuses the
imaginary picture of human
evolution, and increases the
number of inconsistencies.